Submit your article for the fifth issue of Young ICCA Voices

Young ICCA Voices is now accepting submissions for its upcoming fifth issue. In connection with the upcoming ICCA Congress in Madrid in April 2026, the theme of this issue will be “International Arbitration: Local, Global or Both?”.
 
We invite authors to submit articles offering insight into this theme.  Particularly strong articles will examine the topic through examining a more specific aspect of international arbitration, or by providing comments on a specific geographical region with respect to this theme.  Authors are welcome—but not required—to address one of the below exemplar topics in their submissions:

• Investment arbitration’s splintering: Do Achmea/Komstroy and member‑state court pushback mean intra‑EU investment disputes are effectively “regionalized,” especially as the EU and key states exit the ECT? 
• The AfCFTA dispute‑settlement mechanism: How will this mechanism have ripple effects on investor‑state dispute settlement across Africa (and enforcement elsewhere)? 
• Civil vs. common law—truce or new front? Have the Prague Rules shifted the center of gravity toward inquisitorial management, or are we simply re‑labeling IBA‑style practices?
• Mandatory rules & public policy creep: Are sanctions, ESG, and competition rules localizing outcomes and expanding public‑policy defenses to recognition and enforcement—making “global” less global in practice? 
• Sanctions & anti‑suit chess: With Russian courts issuing anti‑arbitration injunctions and awarding damages for breaches, are we seeing “islands of enforceability” that re‑seat disputes by stealth? 
• Knowledge & AI—convergence or divergence? Will soft‑law initiatives and institutional AI labs create a global baseline—or harden regional/sectoral splits? 
• From lex mercatoria to lex regionis? Are we quietly replacing the idea of a universal commercial law with regional private‑law ecosystems that don’t fully interoperate?  
  • What are the benefits of importing international standards compared with cultivating locally-tailored solutions? 
  • How do regional legal scholars and practitioners influence the drafting of arbitration rules or model clauses? 
  • Are there identifiable ‘regional schools’  in international arbitration? 
• Glocalizing the New York Convention: tension between uniform enforcement and domestic judicial interpretation

Submission deadline: 20 January 2026

Any authors who are interested in submitting an article for this issue should send their submission to voices@youngicca.org.

We will confirm receipt of articles as we receive them, but articles for publication will not be chosen until after the submission deadline. Articles are typically selected within three weeks of submission, and we will communicate to all authors whether their articles have been chosen or not by email. We would request that you wait to hear from us. Publication of the fifth issue is currently scheduled for mid-March 2026, but this is a tentative timeline only.

Please review the submission guidelines here before submitting your article.